Shame on you, you sensorism bug. The Stratford Festival rewrote Shakespeare's classic, and it's as bad as you think. Ezra Levenveen explains why, and why it's worse than you thought.
00:19:11.900There's still some wonderful parts to it if you know which is Shakespeare.
00:19:15.900But if you watch the whole thing and actually listen to what you're watching, you might end up hating Shakespeare too.
00:19:34.900Hey, our friend Mark Marano was on Fox News. Take a look at this interview. He was on Jesse Waters' show. Take a look.
00:19:41.900Says some European landowners don't have the money for forest maintenance. It's costly.
00:19:46.900So instead of paying a fine for not maintaining the underbrush, they'll torch it instead.
00:19:51.900The producer says it's common knowledge. And last year in Portugal, CNN reports two firefighters were arrested for setting forest fires in order to give their fire company more work. Cha-ching.
00:20:06.900So what about here in America? Remember those awful wildfires in Yosemite last year?
00:20:13.900Multiple states are under red flag warnings. That is the highest level of alert for wildfires.
00:20:18.900It's all due to a combination of high blistering heat of low humidity and strong winds.
00:20:23.900So it wasn't the heat, humidity, and winds after all. It was Wackerman.
00:20:28.900Edward Wackerman has just been busted for the Yosemite arson.
00:20:32.900He could be responsible for destroying 130 homes and 20,000 acres.
00:20:37.900And remember the smoke bomb from Canada? The sky was orange. The East Coast strapped their COVID masks back on.
00:20:46.900Well, the Toronto Sun reports that cops suspect arson was behind that major wildfire in Quebec.
00:20:57.900But before we blame Republicans like Hillary Clinton did this week, let's take a look at the guy with the book of matches.
00:21:04.900Author of The Green Fraud, Mark Marano joins me now.
00:21:09.900So Mark, can you distinguish between an arsonist fire or winds blowing an already hot forest?
00:21:21.900No, not really. Not once they start. And it looks like they started these fires, the arsonist or the unnatural way, at the worst possible times, with high winds, with dry conditions, with heat.
00:21:34.900So it sounds like they may have even known what they're doing. And there's two different aisles.
00:21:38.900There's the Rhodes aisle and the Corfu aisle. And both of them now, the officials are saying these are intentionally started.
00:21:44.900And they actually said they're basically sick individuals who get pleasure out of causing other people pain.
00:21:50.900And this, of course, happened in the United States. You mentioned Yosemite.
00:21:54.900That was a Democratic donor who was actually given a Democratic candidate.
00:21:57.900So we have Democratic politicians blaming wildfires on climate change when in reality it was one of their donors who actually started the wildfire.
00:22:06.900And this goes to Australia. Forty-two percent of the Australian fires were said to be caused by mankind.
00:22:12.900They've had 700 unnatural fires started over 250 arrests a few years ago in Australia. This is a global problem of people starting this.
00:22:22.900Now, is it climate change? Well, this would be the equivalent of blowing up a dam or sabotaging a dam and allowing a valley to flood and then saying, oh, look, climate change is causing more floods.
00:22:32.900There's other forces at work here, Jesse. Joining us now from his lovely globally warmed patio is our friend Mark Miranda.
00:22:41.900Mark, great to see you. Whenever people say global warming causes forest fire, they're trying to scare people into thinking it's so hot, it's so warm, there was some kind of natural combustion.
00:22:54.900You saw that head of the U.N. the other day talking about global boiling.
00:22:59.900You know, they're trying to imply that there's some spontaneous combustion.
00:23:03.900I think that's their message track. They're trying to imply it's so hot, things are just conflagrating.
00:23:09.900But it's arson or other human, you know, not putting out a campfire or throwing out a cigarette.
00:23:17.900That's what's causing most of these fires, isn't it?
00:23:19.900Yeah, that is human cause. It's just not climate change.
00:23:23.900Well, a couple of two background things on wildfires and forest fires.
00:23:27.900Dramatic declines in the last hundred years in Canada and the United States, in Europe, globally.
00:23:34.900Even the United Nations acknowledges this. Even our national climate assessment.
00:23:38.900That's really not in dispute. We've now forest fires and wildfires are down dramatically.
00:23:43.900Even the hot spots like California, San Jose Mercury News.
00:23:47.900Big newspapers have reported, first of all, centuries ago, California had much worse droughts and wildfires.
00:23:55.900Now, you can always find an increase, Ezra, if you pick one region of California or one region of Western Australia.
00:24:01.900And then you pick like since 1998, there's been an increase if this continues.
00:24:05.900So that's how they do it. And the other thing they do is they show you and I call it like sort of the casino effect.
00:24:12.900You walk in a casino and you see a wall of slot machine winners, right?
00:24:16.900You'll see someone. There's $10,000 winner. There's $100,000 winner. Look, that person won $300,000.
00:24:22.900I got to play the slots. Everyone's winning.
00:24:24.900It gives you the impression that everywhere that they're paying out huge sums and you got to play because you're going to be a winner, too.
00:24:29.900Your chance of winning the lottery very low. Your chance of someone somewhere winning the lottery is very high.
00:24:34.900So what they do with wildfires in all extreme weather is they highlight every single event to show you as though this is some kind of unprecedented record-breaking event.
00:24:44.900And they combine them all over. You can always find a lottery winner. You can always find a slot machine winner.
00:24:50.900And they put them all together on the nightly news and the corporate media and they run with it as though it's unprecedented. It's not. We know that on climate timescales, they're not.
00:24:59.900So that's an important, and then actually a third point, this is important before we talk about wildfires, is they're not even a good metric of climate change.
00:25:08.900This isn't a good way to measure whether climate change is real or accelerating or happening or man-caused because wildfires depend on land usage, politics, forest management,
00:25:19.900water diversion, tree maintenance, all sorts of other issues that have nothing to do with carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, or anything like that.
00:25:28.900But if you want to play that game, of course, they're down. So we're now finding out whether we're talking Australia or Greece or Italy or Canada or the United States,
00:25:37.900it's either a majority of fires can be started with arson or, as you mentioned, campfires unintentional. But the point is they're still human-caused.
00:25:45.900In the case of these arson, a lot of these seem to happen during a time when it's a max impact, meaning dry, hot, and a time where you just wouldn't want to see that happen.
00:25:57.900And we're finding here in the United States, we just had a major arson event revealed.
00:26:01.900A Democratic donor, not making this up, Ezra, started a fire in Yellowstone, was being prosecuted for it.
00:26:08.900This Democratic donor actually gave to Democratic politicians who later then tried to make hay out of these forest fires and wildfires
00:26:16.900claiming they're caused by climate change, when in reality the fire was caused by a Democratic donor.
00:26:22.900See, Democratic politicians blaming wildfires on climate change that were actually caused by their own Democratic donors.
00:26:28.900That's the absurdity we're facing right now in the climate arena, if you will.
00:26:32.900That's a comment you made on Jesse Waters' show on Fox, and I wanted to ask you for more information about that.
00:26:38.900Because there are some people, pyromaniacs is a phrase that we used to use, arsonists, people who get a psychological thrill from lighting fires.
00:26:48.900There are some people who just do it for terrible kicks, who almost like there are some mass shooters who do it for the celebrity.
00:26:57.900I think that there is a strange psychological thrill that some of these deranged people get.
00:29:14.900It's not very far because you have the Harvard Environmental Law Review this year, Ezra,
00:29:19.900saying that energy companies should be prosecuted for climate deaths because use of fossil fuels is creating wildfires and droughts and tornadoes and hurricanes.
00:29:30.900It's really, and this isn't our premier environmental journals.
00:29:33.900This isn't like I'm quoting you a Greenpeace blog.
00:29:50.900Because whether they do it intentionally or whether they're, as Joe Bastardi, the meteorologist says, climate ambulance chasers, in the end, is there really much difference whether you started intentionally or whether you just, excuse me,
00:30:01.900or whether you just exploit that bad incident or the wildfire or the hurricane to use it to get political climate emergency declaration and or use it as an excuse to prosecute energy companies or pass the Green New Deal or whatever you're trying to push in the climate agenda.
00:30:23.900And, of course, the worst people here are the media spin doctors who say this is proof.
00:30:28.900So whether or not the arsonist was politically minded or just deranged is irrelevant because it's weaponized the same way by the media.
00:30:35.900But I can't help but think back a few years with the Black Lives Matter riots around America.
00:30:41.900And maybe you recall seeing a few people dressed head to toe in black, complete black block anonymity, face covered, black umbrella, who had a specific baton in hand.
00:30:58.140And to get the riot started, he would go and smash windows, smash, smash, smash, smash, because riots require some sort of starter pistol, the first person to do the first violent thing, and then everybody pours in.
00:31:14.380And we saw social media footage of people who were clearly agents provocateurs who were clearly going to get this party started, like Ray Epps on January 6th.
00:31:28.460But in this case, they were completely anonymous.
00:31:36.660I would be shocked, but I would not be surprised if the same bad actors who wanted those riots in the summer of 2020 wanted the arson in the summer of 2023 because it's all just political math for them.
00:32:23.580But to your point, we had many instances here in the United States during the Black Lives Rally burning of cities.
00:32:31.880You could call it where they'd show up.
00:32:34.020You could actually see piles of loose bricks would show up on the sidewalk.
00:32:37.920And the idea would be to start breaking storefronts, all to sort of ignite that incident.
00:32:43.820You can go back to the Vietnam War, our government, the Gulf of Tonkin.
00:32:47.040Anything is always, you always need the spark.
00:32:49.700The question is, is that you could also refer to this as climate Antifa if they are out there trying to start these wildfires to create this kind of emergency.
00:32:59.740But the key is they're also on the flip side of that.
00:33:03.720They really are just kind of the way a school shooting generates the gun control excitement.
00:33:09.240You know, they'll seize on any opportunity, weaponize it.
00:33:11.680And they're almost excited when a school shooting happens because then they can start pushing legislation.
00:33:18.680So the question is, and now you're going down a rabbit hole of dark conspiracies, some people would say, of what came first, the chicken or the egg.
00:33:27.180Ultimately, it may not matter because especially with extreme weather, wildfires, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, there are always going to be just like there's going to be a lottery winner, just like there's going to be a slot machine winner somewhere.
00:33:38.320You're always going to have your example and your case to show up and try to, I guess the word would be a psyop.
00:33:44.900And my phrase this past couple of weeks with the heat wave and the wildfires and the U.N. saying it's global boiling is we're moving now, I think, officially from the COVID psyop to the climate psyop.
00:33:55.160And, of course, a psyop, just a psychological operation, is a government, you can even see government corporate collusion narrative where all the information is sort of controlled to lead the public into one direction, that this is unprecedented, this is happening.
00:34:10.680And we need to basically give up more rights in order to fight the climate emergency the same way we had to give up rights to fight the COVID emergency.
00:34:18.100And right now, this week, now, remember, a week ago, it was two weeks ago, it was the heat wave.
00:34:22.440And I could go through every one of those claims in the heat wave and have some fun with you to explain in a sentence or less why they were all bogus, unprecedented.
00:35:32.860In that case, it was designed to genuinely harm the environment, harm the forest, harm the fire department.
00:35:41.360So they weren't trying to build a political narrative.
00:35:43.700It was other than you are vulnerable, we are everywhere, you can't protect all of your forests.
00:35:48.440So terrorists in Israel, terrorists against Israel, have used arson as a weapon.
00:35:55.240It is not inconceivable that the same kind of eco-terrorists who do horrific things to build awareness would do horrific things here.
00:36:06.900And by the way, all it takes is one in a million people.
00:36:09.220Is there one in a million people crazy enough, immoral enough, cold-blooded enough, sociopathic enough that they would start a fire if they thought it was for the right reasons?
00:36:22.760I think the answer is absolutely, and they'd be normalized.
00:37:10.780In fact, when I did my Amazon rainforest documentary, I interviewed experts and talked to scientists.
00:37:16.300Going back to, like, 15th century, the indigenous people β people always say, oh, the indigenous people of the world, they're earth-friendly, they live in harmony with the plants and the animals.
00:37:27.200They said you could fly over the Amazon, if you could fly over the Amazon, in the year 1500, you'd see fires all over the place, slash-and-burn agriculture.
00:37:35.300The American Indian, to use the politically incorrect term, would hunt species to near extinction, buffalo off of cliffs and herding them.
00:37:43.580So the idea that these fires have been caused by man for years.
00:37:47.280And the other thing you could argue, interestingly enough, and I've seen evidence of this, the whole β if you're worried about forest fires, you ought to be worried about Smokey the Bear.
00:37:58.300Remember, he was the one that started the early 1970s, the fire suppression ideology among the Green Movement, which infected and we're still dealing with in places like California, where they believe all fire is bad, so we must suppress it constantly, year after year, decade after decade.
00:38:14.160And what do you do? They're building up a giant tinderbox, and that tinderbox is going to blow, whereas the actual good forest management is you have controlled burns, you keep it thin, you keep it cleared, you don't let the fuel load, i.e. the dead branches and leaves and pine needles grow.
00:38:29.860So Smokey the Bear might be responsible as well, but I think you're absolutely right when you're dealing with this.
00:38:35.680It's a valid question, but I'm not aware of any prosecutors anywhere, whether it's Australia, Greece, United States or Canada, who have said this person started it because they are a climate activist and wanted, you know, essentially to put political pressure to make a climate emergency worse or appear worse.
00:38:51.860But it might just be, Ezra, that our prosecutors aren't asking the right questions and aren't thinking outside the box like that, and I think you're on to something here, very valid.
00:39:00.980Well, we'll have to keep our eyes peeled. I certainly hope that's not a new kind of political crime, but I just say again, there's such mania out there, drummed up.
00:39:10.700I mean, this global warming here is so insane. I think it pushes one, even one in a million people pushed to the brink is enough to create terrible things.
00:39:19.040Mark Morano, boss of ClimateDepot.com. Great to catch up with you again.
00:39:23.960Our pleasure. There you have it. Stay with us. More ahead.
00:39:26.700Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me.
00:39:39.680Veranda says, in the last hundred years, we've had summers with 35 to 40 degrees Celsius.
00:39:44.940Now with climate change, we have the very same 35 to 40 degrees Celsius, however, presented by your local forecast with the map painted in red.
00:39:53.340Yeah, I mean, it's called summertime, and they really connected to global boiling.
00:39:58.180We have cold winters, too, but don't you dare say that that's global cooling.
00:40:02.640Don't you know the difference between weather and climate?
00:40:05.100J.N.M. Cross says, this may be your most succinct, most correct, most rational commentary yet, Ezra.
00:40:11.740What about China's unchecked pollution? Is it really about saving lives, saving the earth, saving non-renewable energy sources?
00:40:17.500Of course not. It's about control, and fear is the shortest and strongest path to control.
00:40:21.760You know, they really did try out so many new things during the COVID lockdowns that they are going to repeat,
00:40:28.520from fear to the concept of lockdowns to emergencies to, you know, just two weeks to flatten the curve,
00:40:34.900just two years till we flatten the curve of, you're going to hear flatten the curve for climate, too.